President Heinrich Luebke has signed the bill, adopted by Parliament, extending the West German statute of limitations for prosecutions of Nazi war criminals for an additional four and a half years. The statute had been scheduled to go into effect on May 8. Under the extension, the effective date will be January 1, 1970.
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